Speaker A
Harbor. Bank. God! How much did you tell them? God! Flight 4 is now boarding gate 7.
Classic 1976 episode of The Streets of San Francisco featuring crime drama, mystery, and action as detectives hunt a dangerous hitman.
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Key Takeaways
- Nick Carras is a pivotal character whose testimony could bring down a crime kingpin.
- The investigation is complicated by fear, mistrust, and the elusive nature of criminal networks.
- Law enforcement faces challenges balancing legal constraints with the need to protect witnesses.
- The episode highlights the personal costs and dangers faced by those involved in crime investigations.
- The story underscores the persistent nature of crime and the difficulty in achieving justice.
What the video covers
- The episode revolves around the investigation of Johnny Harman, a crime kingpin involved in multiple illegal activities.
- Detectives are searching for Nick Carras, a feared hitman and key witness to a murder committed by Harman.
- Nick Carras had disappeared years ago but is spotted returning from Europe, raising tensions.
- The story explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the dangerous underworld of organized crime.
- Detectives Mike Stone and his partner navigate complex relationships and threats to protect witnesses.
- The plot includes intense scenes at an airport, bars, and hotel rooms, highlighting a gritty urban atmosphere.
- Nick Carras struggles with his past and the dangerous present, caught between old friends and enemies.
- The episode features suspenseful stakeouts, confrontations, and the looming threat of violence.
- The narrative also touches on the personal lives of characters, adding depth to the crime drama.
- The episode is a blend of action, mystery, and emotional tension typical of 1970s American TV crime dramas.
Chapters
- 00:00Airport and Initial Investigation
- 05:14The Threat of Johnny Harman and Nick Carras
- 11:11Nick Carras Returns and Old Connections
- 15:47Stakeout and Surveillance
- 19:23Nick's Loyalty and Dangerous Past
- 22:15Confrontations and Revelations
- 26:12Ongoing Investigation and Personal Stakes
- 29:20Climactic Developments and Resolution
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Speaker A
Flight 4, you are now boarding gate 7. Mr. Hal Shaw, please report to the ticket office.
Speaker A
Mr. Hal Shaw, please report to the ticket office. Gate 7. Flight 19, flight 19, now boarding gate 7.
Speaker A
Mr. Hal Shaw, Mr. Hal Shaw. Hello, Brian. Since when did the DA's office start babysitting?
Speaker A
Yeah, we want to make sure on this one, Mike. Yeah, so do I. I'll watch the front.
Speaker A
Did you check that room? I checked it. It's empty. How do you feel? All right, this one's around the clock.
Speaker A
One man in and one man out. No visitors. Before I put you on the stand, I want to go over your testimony if you—Wait a minute.
Speaker A
Wait a minute. Look, I don't know these two. How do you know they don't belong to Harmon?
Speaker A
How do you know I don't? I see you and Stone. Tell the captain we're back.
Speaker A
Yeah, he's fine. How's that again? Nick Carl? When? Okay, yeah. Keep me posted. Nick Carl?
Speaker A
I thought he was dead. So did I. Customs officer who used to work for the police department spotted him in the airport getting off a plane from France.
Speaker A
And they lost him? Where could he have gone? Family, friends? I don't know. Nobody ever got close to him.
Speaker A
What about Tim Murphy? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, maybe. Look, Stone. You got to protect me. You got to.
Speaker A
Right. You got a minute? Outside. Stone! Harman must have sent for him. Yeah. And guess who he's after.
Speaker A
I know, but we've been looking for Nick Carras ever since this case broke. Look, I know legally you've got nothing to pick him up on, but if you get to him, talk to him. He could be a witness.
Speaker A
A witness? Now look, O'Brien. He's here to kill the only witness you've got. Maybe, but it's worth a try. So, if you find him, I'll find him. I'll talk to him.
Speaker A
Mike, look, this is important. We've had Johnny Harman under investigation for 18 months. 6,000 man hours digging for something to nail him on. Tax fraud, narco, prostitution, gambling. He's into all of them. The kingpin.
Speaker A
But we've never been able to prove anything until Barber cried for help. Three men saw Harman kill Wallach.
Speaker A
One of them's dead and Barber's running scared. Nick Carras was the third. Now maybe he's scared, too. Talk to him.
Speaker A
That's all. O'Brien. Can I tell you something? He's not scared. Where are we going?
Speaker A
Tim Murphy. Runs a bar on Leavenworth. Right. Who is this, uh, this Nick Carl?
Speaker A
Hitman. Used to work for Johnny Harmon. He used to? Mhm. When Johnny Harmon was climbing out of the gutter, Nick Carl built rungs for him out of bodies.
Speaker A
Has he ever been nailed? Too smart. He's a machine. No pity, no passion, no mistakes.
Speaker A
Pretty cold, huh? How do you figure a guy like that? You don't. Just keep him in front of you.
Speaker A
Where's he been? I don't know. He disappeared about 7 or 8 years ago. The talk was that he, um, got shot up pretty badly in a fight somewhere and went to Europe and died.
Speaker A
Too bad he didn't. Well, that sounds pretty personal. One of those bodies wore a badge.
Speaker A
Where's Little Joe? Who? The guy that owns this place. Oh, him. He died a couple years ago. Uh, we're under new management.
Speaker A
You want a room? Yeah. It's 311. Uh, got one on the second floor that's better if you, uh—No, keep it.
Speaker A
$12 a night in advance. When do you get off? Midnight. You know how to make an overseas call on this?
Speaker A
Sure. All right. Two nights. $100? What's that for? Half's for you, half's for the night man.
Speaker A
Why? Somebody might pay me a visit. I don't like surprises. All right. Uh, Mr. Smith.
Speaker A
Listen, I'll show you the way. I know the way. Sorry about Little Joe. I, uh, heard he died of a heart attack.
Speaker A
If you want, I can ask some—Yeah. Want to make a local call. 555-3781. This is Nick Carl.
Speaker A
Yeah, just hold on. Okay. Yeah, Mr. Herman. Yeah, he's on the horn. Nick. You son of a gun.
Speaker A
How are you? All right. How about you, Johnny? Never better. Yeah, I missed you, Nick.
Speaker A
It's been a long time. Yeah, too long. I ought to lay into you for not keeping in touch.
Speaker A
Yeah, what am I hearing? You breaking down the peace? Nothing changes, right? We get older.
Speaker A
Yeah, but we stay smart. Listen, Nick, I, uh, I really appreciate you coming back.
Speaker A
You need, uh, anything? No. I got everything I need. I wish I did. All I got is problems.
Speaker A
That's why I'm here, Johnny. Yeah. Nick, it's, uh, it's not set up yet. Where can I find you?
Speaker A
Chinatown. You know the place. Room 311. Good. You just sit tight. I'll call you in the morning, okay?
Speaker A
Anybody I know, Johnny? Mhm. This is the first time I knew you'd ask. Boy, does it make a difference.
Speaker A
Never has, has it? That's the Nick I remember. I'll call you in the morning.
Speaker A
Two coffees, Tim. Coffee, huh? That'll be AA or Mike Stone? Can you make one of those a tea?
Speaker A
Don't have any tea. One coffee with a little cream. I see you around, Lieutenant.
Speaker A
I haven't been around. Well, I guess your business is better than mine, huh? Looking for somebody special?
Speaker A
Nick Carr. Nick Carr, huh? That was years ago. No kidding, Lieutenant. Somebody really see Nick?
Speaker A
Just today. I can't believe it. Why would he come here, Lieutenant? We weren't good friends.
Speaker A
Only reason we got along at all was 'cause he used to like my sister.
Speaker A
Well, could he be in touch with her? I buried her last July. Sorry. I wouldn't know where to find him.
Speaker A
Thanks anyway, Tim. You're welcome. Hey, let me put this in a paper cup. No, no thanks.
Speaker A
Sure? Yeah. I wish I were as sure about you, Tim. See you. You think he was lying?
Speaker A
Eight to five he never had a sister. You want to stay here? No, take it around the block.
Speaker A
Right. Can I help you? No thanks, just looking up a buddy. Yeah. What time?
Speaker A
10:00 to 2:00. You mean we got to the wrong place? We're going to stay right here until Tim throws the bolt on that door.
Speaker A
Headquarters to Inspectors 81, come in 81. Inspectors 81. 901, your office. Inspector Hastings immediately.
Speaker A
Tell him 2 minutes. Now, if you see Nick Karl, you just sit tight. Don't move in.
Speaker A
Can I use your phone? Too late to get a beer? Sorry, it's 2:00. You know how I feel about breaking the law, Nick.
Speaker A
How long you've been selling time like this? Oh, 5, 6 years. You could have let me know.
Speaker A
What's to know? I'm not complaining. Sorry, Tim. Hey, Carl, sorry. Come on. I better bend the rules and buy you that beer after all.
Speaker A
Coffee would be fine. Coffee, huh? Big push on coffee tonight. I'll have it. Black. By the way, Mike Stone was in tonight.
Speaker A
He was looking for you. Stone? Yep. Almost saw him. Saw him. Now he's a lieutenant now.
Speaker A
Yeah, that must be him down the block. Stakeout? Yeah. I took a couple of rounds in different cabs.
Speaker A
There's an older man and a kid in an unmarked car. Oh. Well, how's the wife?
Speaker A
Fine. Must be some woman to make you like farming. Yeah. Two sons. I can't get over it.
Speaker A
Right time, right place, people change. I guess you're lucky, Nick. Some people never change. I take me.
Speaker A
I got no sons, but I got a business. I got friends. Don't have to get up in the middle of the night and check the door, either.
Speaker A
That's a blessing. How about Johnny? Johnny? Oh, Johnny's different. He's got a lot of problems.
Speaker A
Am I one of them? What do you mean? Somebody tried to hit me tonight.
Speaker A
Johnny was the only one to know where I was. Oh, come on, Nick. Johnny wouldn't do a thing like that. Why?
Speaker A
You two were just like brothers. Sure. Look, Nick. You know there's a lot of people who like to knock you off.
Speaker A
And if the cops spotted you, well, somebody else did too, that's all. What you got to trust, Johnny?
Speaker A
Look, Nick, I told Johnny you said you'd do it because he asked you, because you figured you owed him.
Speaker A
Oh, and he gave me something to lay on you. 10 grand. That's how Johnny treats his friends.
Speaker A
Look, Nick, I never would have asked you to come back here, but Johnny kept bugging me.
Speaker A
"Where is he?" kept saying, "Find him." I never told him where you were. I never told anybody.
Speaker A
But Nick, Johnny needs you. Hold it for me until Johnny and I talk. Talk?
Speaker A
That is a fine arts affair. He's here. He came in just after you left. What did C.G. have to say?
Speaker A
A little rank and nobody was looking for. Anything you can bust him on? No, but it'll sh—
Speaker A
Hello, Stone. You have a good memory. Remember the drill? Sure. We still do it.
Speaker A
Tim told me you've been dropping by. I don't suppose you remember Rogers. Not off the top.
Speaker A
12 years ago, my senior partner then okay turn around. He had you on the hook. He went to talk to a witness one night and uh caught a bullet in the throat.
Speaker A
That's a long time ago. You're right. Let's talk about 11:30 tonight. All right, you're leaving.
Speaker A
The two guys who kicked your hotel room door in, do you know who they were?
Speaker A
The hotel clerk pulled their pictures from our files, the Sangster brothers, Bobby and Bernie.
Speaker A
Doesn't ring. Well, maybe Tim can ring it for you. Can't help you. Everybody knows the Sangsters.
Speaker A
Don't they, Steve? They work for Johnny Harmon. And you do know Johnny Harmon, don't you, Nick? Or maybe you thought you did.
Speaker A
Are you trying to tell me that Johnny wants me dead? He's afraid you're going to talk. Just like Barber.
Speaker A
Barber? That's right. Nobody told you we've got him under protective custody. He nailed Harmon for the murder of Abe Wallach.
Speaker A
Barber says that Harmon killed him. That'll be the first time he pulled the trigger himself.
Speaker A
Now, Barber saw it and so did a junkie named Rawls. And so did you.
Speaker A
Rawls broke it wide open. But Harmon got to him. The coroner's report was OD.
Speaker A
But Barber knew it was murder. He's scared. He agreed to testify, Nick. You could corroborate that testimony.
Speaker A
You read it all wrong, Nick, just like we did. Uh Harmon wasn't sure he could get you over there in Europe.
Speaker A
So, he brought you here where he could control it. Not for the hit like you think.
Speaker A
But to set you up. Is that all? You tell me. Now, we know you were in that hotel room because we've got your prints.
Speaker A
And we found a picture in there, too. She's beautiful, Nick. Two nice little boys.
Speaker A
They mean anything to you? You want me to hand you Johnny? Just the way he handed you over to the Sangsters right?
Speaker A
If he did, that's between Johnny and me. No hunting parties in the streets, Nick.
Speaker A
Because I'm going to be watching you. I'll watch you like a hawk, every step you take.
Speaker A
I'll be watching, too. Good. We'll watch each other then, huh? In case you change your mind, our switchboard is open day and night.
Speaker A
Sure. Smart cop, that Mike Stone. Yeah. Let's go. Catch us a cab. Okay. You know what they're trying to do, don't you, Nick?
Speaker A
I mean, all that talk about a setup. All right. They They They really want Johnny so bad, they're working all the angles.
Speaker A
Well, do you think he believed you? I think he already had it figured. Yeah.
Speaker A
There they are. Don't lose them. Are they with us? For now. You want me to check the front desk?
Speaker A
He's got to see Harmon. Make it you. Get to the side exit on Geary.
Speaker A
Well, that buys us a little time. Now I'll go get the real stuff from Johnny.
Speaker A
Balance is a fine art. Instinct tell you that? Old age. Come on. Let's move.
Speaker A
You need the ambulance? Sure. Here we are. End of piece. Oh, I thought you don't need that now.
Speaker A
I need a piece. I'll wait here. No need to keep the meter running. Johnny will take us home.
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. I guess you're right. That's the West Side. Breeze is coming from the bay.
Speaker A
That puts us out. It's been a long time. I must have made a mistake.
Speaker A
What do you mean Harmon without a gun? If I could read him all the time, I would have had him locked up 12 years ago.
Speaker A
Stick to the shadows. There he is. Johnny? It's who we came to see, isn't it?
Speaker A
Sure. Well, he and I got things to talk about. Why don't you go ahead?
Speaker A
I got no secrets from you, Tim. Let's go see him. What is Nick I'm an old man.
Speaker A
I'm an old man and just wanted to see something again before I died. You sold me out. What for, Tim? What did Johnny pay you?
Speaker A
My eyes. He promised to get me a transplant. I know I could never swing it myself.
Speaker A
Sorry. Sorry. Tim Murphy's sorry. Yeah, I guess maybe I am sorry. We're all sorry. You, me, Johnny. We were born sorry.
Speaker A
And I guess we'll die the same way. Johnny! Johnny's not there, is he, Tim?
Speaker A
And I figure you got about 60 ft to tell me which side they're going to hit us from.
Speaker A
I don't know, Nick. I don't know. Johnny! Hold it. Oh, Forget it. Okay, okay.
Speaker A
Don't shoot, man. I'm through. Don't shoot. Nick. Nick. He's gone. What about the other one?
Speaker A
He's dead. So is Tim. Stand up. Was Nick hit? Yeah. How bad? I don't know. I thought I took him out, and he just kept coming.
Speaker A
Anything on Carl? No. Harmon's house is staked out, but he hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker A
I just come from Barbara. He's hysterical. Tell him he's got nothing to be scared of now. Johnny Harmon's the guy to be scared.
Speaker A
All he wants to hear is that Nick Carl is behind bars. Oh, why couldn't you hang on him when you had him?
Speaker A
Oh, you guys kill me, you know that. You really do. Half the time you keep yelling you don't have case enough to make the arrest stick, and now you want an arrest without a case at all.
Speaker A
Well, you could have come up with something. I didn't hear that. I guess I didn't, either, until just now. I'm sorry, Mike.
Speaker A
All I know is I got a preliminary on Friday and the only witness I have is so scared he's not about to say anything to anybody.
Speaker A
You're tired. Get some sleep. Jerry will call you as soon as we pick him up, all right?
Speaker A
I like your confidence, Steve, but how do you know he won't go underground again?
Speaker A
Nick Carl's family. If he runs, Johnny Harmon will be looking for him and the family for the rest of his life.
Speaker A
He's out there somewhere. And when he tries to see Harmon, that's when we see him.
Speaker A
Yes, operator. This is Lorraine France. The call was supposed to come through at 9:00.
Speaker A
Yes, I do. Hello. Darling. I'm so worried I missed your call. Are you all right?
Speaker A
Yes, I am. Do you want to talk to the children? I want to talk to you.
Speaker A
I miss you. I miss you, too. Very much. When are you coming back? It won't be long now.
Speaker A
How's everything? Oh, terrible. Paul let the goat out and he ate five of the new roses and I I a window trying to fix the door and well, we just lost without you. That's all.
Speaker A
How's Nicholas? Oh, he's fine. The doctor said it was just a stomach ache. Yeah.
Speaker A
Come and say hello to your papa. Come on. Get up. Papa. Hi pal. You feeling okay now?
Speaker A
Yes, papa. Kiss your mama for me, huh? Okay. Here's ball. Hello papa. Hi Paul.
Speaker A
When are you coming home? As soon as I can. And you be a good boy now, all right?
Speaker A
I will. I'm sorry about the goat, papa. The goat? Huh. Will you take good care of your mom for me?
Speaker A
All right? Yes, sir. Goodbye, son. Goodbye, papa. Come in. Are you all right? I'm fine.
Speaker A
I just picked up a cold. That's That's all. Look Michelle. I've got to go now.
Speaker A
All right, darling. Take care of yourself. We love you. Michelle. I love you, too.
Speaker A
Marjorie, Dr. Lavias said that I could speak to a patient named Sangster. Uh Bobby Sangster?
Speaker A
That's right. Yes, Lieutenant. Uh the patient's in room 214, right down the hall. 214, thank you.
Speaker A
You're welcome. Oh, and uh hang on that phone. Righty. Just a minute. Mr. Harmon?
Speaker A
Nick. Before you say anything, I want you to know it wasn't me. I don't know what Tim told you, but Tim's dead.
Speaker A
Yeah, I heard. He had it coming, Nick. It had to have been him that set you up.
Speaker A
Now listen, you got the money, just take it and go. And forget the contract.
Speaker A
Oh, sure, no problem. I'll handle it some way. Consider it a wedding gift. I never knew where to send it before.
Speaker A
But you do now, right? Nick, I'm being straight with you. Just like always. I don't forget what people do for me.
Speaker A
You did plenty. Okay. And maybe I can ask you a favor, huh? Name it.
Speaker A
I can't fly out. I need some wheels. I'll try to make it to LA.
Speaker A
Leave in Mexico. Sure. No problem. Where I find you? Where the cops won't. The aquatic park.
Speaker A
At the end of the pier. Smart. Give me 30 minutes. Thanks, Danny. Steve. Excuse me.
Speaker A
You got a fully sworn and signed statement right? I'd like to put him back in intensive care, the punk.
Speaker A
give Harmon one thing, he keeps his boys in line. I got to give him nothing.
Speaker A
Lieutenant. For you. Thanks, Marjorie. Yeah Stone. We're rolling. Got something? Maybe Johnny Harmon. Stakeout boys say that his car flew out of there like Apollo 12.
Speaker A
Inspectors 27 to Inspectors 81, still have suspect vehicle in sight, headed north on Van Ness.
Speaker A
27, this is 81. We're approaching Van Ness. Keep us posted. Hold on, 81. They're crossing Beach Street. Looks like they're heading straight for the pier.
Speaker A
Take them when they stop the car. 81 to communications. Alert all vehicles within vicinity of aquatic park.
Speaker A
27 and 81 are involved in chasing a suspect car. Assist with a 221. Possible code 600.
Speaker A
All right, hold it right there. Police. Put your hands on your head. Move over here.
Speaker A
Easy. They went out on the pier, Mike. Phil, see if you can drop the chain.
Speaker A
Take it easy. Be careful. He may be armed. Hold it. Turn around easy. He paid me $5.
Speaker A
Well, Johnny. You don't have to look for Angie. She's in the basement. And Sally's in the garage.
Speaker A
It's just you and me, Johnny. Nick. I just sent the boys. You sent the boys?
Speaker A
You hurt? Pour me one of those. You better see a doctor. Let me get No calls.
Speaker A
Just pour. Pour it. Nothing from underneath that counter. Just ice. Yeah, I'll use it.
Speaker A
Why Johnny? Why? They got me with this one, Nick. One dumb mistake all those years ago and it finally broke wide open.
Speaker A
And you thought I'd talk, too. How could I know, Nick? How could I be sure? I mean, it's been 8 years.
Speaker A
8 years, I never heard nothing from you. Didn't even know how to get word to you.
Speaker A
Didn't even know how you stood if they got to you first. I couldn't take the chance.
Speaker A
You know why I came back, Johnny? Because you asked. I didn't even think about it.
Speaker A
Otherwise I I want to come back. No. I don't like remembering what I used to be.
Speaker A
All those years. You know, all that time. I remember I had one friend. One guy I figured I could count on.
Speaker A
No questions. Do it. Whatever it was. So, I came back for one more job.
Speaker A
But, you took me off the hook. I don't have to kill anybody now. I can get rid of you without even pulling this trigger.
Speaker A
You're going to talk. I got to. You showed me that. Nick. Tim said that family of yours meant everything to you. Now, if I don't get you to a doctor, you're never going to see him again.
Speaker A
They can make it along without me. As long as I know that you're out of the way.
Speaker A
Hey! Who's trying to kill me? STEVE, GET AN AMBULANCE. RIGHT. Inside pocket. What are they, Nick?
Speaker A
Insurance policy. The little one's for you. And the big one's for me. Mail it for me, huh?
Speaker A
Nick. Nick. It's good you were here. I probably would have been charged for this one, too.
Speaker A
What? Did you hire Nick for one more kill? He just delivered. Witness this, Dean.
Speaker A
What is that? It's a deathbed confession, Mr. Harmon. On how you killed Abe Wollock.
Speaker A
Who's that for? A widow and two orphans. Did you look inside? Well, how could I? It's a federal offense to open somebody else's mail.
Speaker A
You know that. Not before it's mail. Son of a gun. Now you tell me, huh?
Speaker A
That was the money Johnny Harmon paid Nick Karras, wasn't it? For a job he didn't do.
Speaker A
Son of a gun. Okay. There we are, 40 units. It's him. Maybe. I'll go Vince.
Speaker A
Vince? Ernie. Ernie, good to hear your voice. Listen, did you get them? Yeah, the whole lot.
Speaker A
Beautiful. Uh where are you? I'm just off Embarcadero. 207 Front Street. Room 25. Oh, there's a rear entrance.
Speaker A
Uh did you have any trouble? Heh, not a hitch. I smell like a ship's bilge and I got to wash off half of Mexico.
Speaker A
Well, look, uh there's no rush. Take a good long bath and get a good night's sleep. You've earned it, and uh we'll see each other tomorrow.
Speaker A
Sure. Uh maybe it's better anyway. I'm I'm beat. See you tomorrow, then. Yeah. He's got them, Tommy.
Speaker A
Enough to buy us the world. Tommy, where are you going? You're insulin. This is no time to be falling on your face.
Speaker A
Spence, I don't know whether I can do it. You'll do it, Tommy. Just like we planned.
Speaker A
You'll do it for the money and for me. Ashes to ashes. Yeah. What do you think, Doc? Another cigarette in bed?
Speaker A
Hard to say yet. He was pretty well done. Well, I'll get the arson detail in here and see what they can turn up.
Speaker A
How long for the autopsy report? I'll get on it right away. Hi, Doc. Mike, we got a John Doe. Manager said the night clerk didn't register anybody for this room.
Speaker A
I found a sawbuck under the table. That's one way to beat the room tax.
Speaker A
Yeah. Did you get the clerk's name and address? Radio unit's on his way to pick him up.
Speaker A
Yeah. Maybe we got something. Looks pretty black. The numbers look good. Go put your young eyes on that.
Speaker A
Nothing. Nothing, huh? No. Well, poke around on there some more. Thanks. You know, a guy with a gun who doesn't register in a flea bag like this, you know something's fishy.
Speaker A
Mike. Yeah. Take a look at this. Looks like one of those uh gold luck charms or something.
Speaker A
Gold? Maybe. Luck charm, I don't think so. Well, you did find them of some interest after all.
Speaker A
Mr. James, you startled me. In this contraption, I sometimes feel like a mechanical Satan.
Speaker A
Body of a man and legs of a champion. What is it? What? You're troubled.
Speaker A
No, I'm just tired, I guess. I worked late last night typing up the notes.
Speaker A
The university should have warned you I'm a slave driver. Well, the last person to leave the project did say something to that effect.
Speaker A
Oh, that was a big mistake all around. A man can't dictate an autobiography to an insensitive soul.
Speaker A
What about you? Any complaints? Oh, no. The room you gave me is just lovely. Pay is fine and the company is very stimulating.
Speaker A
Thank you. Tell me the truth. Well, when I came in a moment ago, you were thinking I'm an eccentric old man who hoards his gold coins like a modern-day Midas, weren't you?
Speaker A
No, not really. I was just thinking they must be very valuable. Well, in round figures, half a million dollars.
Speaker A
I had no idea. Would you like to hear how I came to collect them?
Speaker A
Uh no, I think we should um finish what we left off with yesterday. Um what do you remember about your 1927 trip to New Zealand?
Speaker A
You are a very odd young woman, the first one I ever met who was more interested in my memory than my money.
Speaker A
Well, people already know about the John R. James fortune and I want the book to be about the man.
Speaker A
Thank you. Let's go on the terrace. Shall we? All right. What did the coroner say?
Speaker A
Nothing yet. Is that thing worth anything, Charlie? Mhm, specific gravity gold, slightly less than 22 carats.
Speaker A
900,000 fine. Weight, exactly 516 grains. All of which means? All of which means it's a planchet.
Speaker A
A what? A planchet. That's a metal disc that's ready to be stamped into a coin, right?
Speaker A
Right. I use it in crossword puzzles a lot. You got time to do crossword puzzles?
Speaker A
I don't give you enough to do around here huh? Say um what kind of a coin does this thing make?
Speaker A
I got some books over here that'll tell you for sure. That one to me looks like a double eagle size.
Speaker A
Double eagle, that's a $20 gold piece, isn't it? Hey, Chuck, one up for the old folks.
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You like words, huh? Yeah. Read them to me. See, Charlie? Well, there's 464 grains of pure gold in the planchet.
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And how many grains in an ounce? 450, isn't it? No, I think it's 480.
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Nah, 450. 480. 480? Yeah. They must have changed it since my high school physics course.
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They must have. Look, um no, let's not read for a minute huh? Now, the night clerk said that the victim came in with a satchel.
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Right. We don't find a satchel. But we do get this uh little goody here.
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Which Gale book here says is illegal in the US except as coins held by collectors.
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And which could have been in that closet for years over they clean out those waterfront dives.
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Possibly, yeah. Think we're spinning our wheels? Close to an ounce of gold. Worth about a what, 65 or 70 bucks on the international market?
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Think it's about that. Stone. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be right there. Looks like maybe we got something.
Speaker A
What? Corner said murder. Tommy. May I help you? Is Finn's here? He's busy right now.
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Is there anything I can do to help? Karen. Hi. You're early. I missed you.
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Come, let's take a walk. Who was that? Just a guy I brought in to help out a little.
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He doesn't know anything about what's going on, does he? No, he barely knows enough about coins to answer the questions that come in off the street.
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Did you bring the diagram? Yes. Are you sure you have each coin in the exact place he keeps it?
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Yes. Vince, I'm frightened. Of what? I don't know. Doing anything like this, getting caught or hurting that old man.
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going to trade one set of coins for another set of coins, and nobody's going to get hurt. You want to see something?
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What is it? Our ticket to Spain, Angel, the Costa del Sol. Vince, I just wish I could feel the same way as you do about it.
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It's how we feel about each other that counts, and having the money to do whatever we want to do together, and go wherever we want to go.
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You really do mean it, don't you? What you said. Baby, the last thing in the world I wanted to do the day I found you was to make a delivery to that Monsignor.
Speaker A
Bang, there you were. You're the best trip I've ever had. And Mr. James, he stop worrying about that old man? He owns half of Nob Hill.
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He is not going to miss what's in that case. He told me this morning it was worth about half a million dollars.
Speaker A
Angel, you've seen it sitting there yourself. And what good is it doing anybody? It's not like robbing a bank or someone's business.
Speaker A
Hey, I've watched people like that all my life. I watched while my father pandered to them. I swept up a crummy shop while they walked out with more than he made all year, sealed in one lousy little bit
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of plastic. What do they do with it? Take it home and put it in a glass case.
Speaker A
Well fine. Let John or James sit and stare at his eagles. I want to see the world.
Speaker A
It's homicide, no question. There wasn't a trace of smoke in the victim's lungs. And that means the victim was dead before the fire started, huh?
Speaker A
Yeah. Couldn't be a stroke or a heart attack? Not from my findings. Considering there were no breaks, welts, or contusions on the body, I'd make it suffocation.
Speaker A
Suffocation, huh? This envelope shows there was a struggle. It's a few human flesh and hair from under the victim's fingernails.
Speaker A
Let's get it under the microscope. There's uh no chance of making an ID on the victim, huh?
Speaker A
Sorry. Later, okay? Thanks, Harry. Buddy boy. What does a short-barreled .32 with the serial numbers filed off say to you?
Speaker A
Robe, ice starters, maybe. And one plan set out of a satchel full ripped off by whoever killed him?
Speaker A
Well, a couple hundred would be worth 10, maybe 15,000, but you'd have to have the right contacts to unload them.
Speaker A
Wouldn't be worth all that time and trouble, though, would it? No. What about the nightclub?
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Ah, no, nickels and dimes. This one's got to be worth more than nickels and dimes.
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Yeah, Tommy, here's $15,000. If it were good, but it's not. I blew that one. You see those scratches?
Speaker A
Those little things? Those little things are called cast marks. One of that bad it could tell an expert that it's a phony real fast.
Speaker A
Speaking of scratches, how about those adrenaline laid on you? They're okay. I guess they found me by now.
Speaker A
Relax. And they'll be able to tell what they found. That's a strand of blonde human hair.
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Came from the same place the coroner found those flakes of skin on slide number two.
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Is it body hair or face? Body, and probably his arms. And he's between the age of 20 and 40, definitely male and Caucasian.
Speaker A
Well, that lets you and me out, Charlie. How about you, buddy boy? You willing to roll up your sleeves?
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Want to try to raise a few numbers? Chicken, huh? Charlie. Mhm. What do you got on this third slide?
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Shards of rusted metal. I found them embedded in the soles of the victim's shoes.
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Any guesses? I'll have a better picture when I finish evaporating the solution. We washed what was left of the victim's clothing and shoes. That's what we got.
Speaker A
I'll rust powder in solution, electromagnet. You want to know something? What? I've been here for 25 years, I've never seen this thing work.
Speaker A
A serial number stamped in metal can be filed off, but can never be completely destroyed.
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Yeah, I know that. The molecular structure of the metal retains a ghost of the stamp number.
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Let's see it work. Right. Serial number H12987. All PDs are I'm on my way.
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What do you know? It really works, huh? Now you see it. Now you don't.
Speaker A
Magic eh? Well, maybe we'll get something after all. Say, where's that um Oh, the latent print kit.
Speaker A
Oh. You're going to need a 10-point match for positive ID. You really think there's a chance?
Speaker A
Charlie, I'm going to let you in a little secret. I always think there's a chance.
Speaker A
Good. Finished? Uh that's for a while. My eyes get tired. How much longer? A few more tonight, a few more in the morning.
Speaker A
Vince, who are you calling? Karen. Vince, I told you it was just business. I killed a man, Vince. Well, look, that had to be done.
Speaker A
Just like my seeing Karen. Now, it won't be long. Now, go inside and get some more glass envelopes and we'll seal these up.
Speaker A
Go ahead. Ms. Pearson, to Thank you. Hello? Working hard? Oh, I was afraid you weren't going to call.
Speaker A
Oh, big call tonight. I'll be finished in the morning. Tomorrow? I'll tell you what time. Well, I got to go now.
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Love you, baby. I love you, too. I Hmm. Well well well. Well, well, well, what?
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Sodium chloride, sodium bromide, magnesium bromide. Well, thank you, Dr. Einstein. The primary salt in seawater.
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From the victim's clothes. The residue evaporated from the solution we got when we washed them.
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And this came from the shoes. It's a lead compound identical to what they use in marine paint. A ship. Just off it, too, if he hadn't changed his clothes.
Speaker A
Everybody wants to be a detective. San Diego made the serial numbers on a .32.
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Stolen 3 weeks ago in National City. Prints taken at the scene of theft identified as Ernie Walker.
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AKA Ernie Williams. Priors all for robbery, huh? I want Walker's jacket. I want his mug shots, I want his prints, I want everything. I want them right now.
Speaker A
I've already asked for it. It's on its way. Good. Well, we may have our dead man. Now we got to find the man who killed him.
Speaker A
They're pretty, aren't they? Is it the one on the bottom? The fourth from the right?
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Yeah. What's the date? 1907. Uh-huh. Does it look any different from the rest? They all look the same to me.
Speaker A
Well, that one's worth $22,500 to me. Real rare piece of change. We're going to be rich, Arvin.
Speaker A
Yeah. Vince? The insulin. How many units was that? Um how many units? About 80, I think. Maybe a little more.
Speaker A
No, it's supposed to be 40. Right. Vince? That's too much. Vince? Vince? Sorry, Tommy.
Speaker A
Just business. Good morning. Morning. Oh, you're out early. The day is at its most beautiful in the morning, coming awake, alive. Oh, don't do that. It's taken nearly 10 years to perfect this hybrid.
Speaker A
Sorry. It's all right. You couldn't have known. I believe if I cross this with that dark red over there, I'll have the most beautiful rose ever created.
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A deep, deep red with just a tinge of yellow in the throat, the look of velvet.
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A true queen, like no other on Earth ever before her. I must sound like a jelly-minded old fool.
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No, no, not at all. They mean even more to you than the eagles, don't they?
Speaker A
The eagles belong to someone else now. These will always be mine. What do you mean?
Speaker A
Nothing. The food's so good, I always eat too much. Yeah. Yo. Yeah, how much do I owe you?
Speaker A
Forget it. What do you mean, forget it? Somebody give you a raise in salary that I didn't offer you?
Speaker A
it. You don't owe me anything. Okay, thanks, big shot. You're welcome. You like talking, he's still thinking.
Speaker A
Oh, I'm sorry, buddy boy. You know that partial that we lifted from the 32?
Speaker A
That proves that this Walker is the guy that we pried from that hotel room, right?
Speaker A
Right. He did 2 years in Nevada for grand theft. Completed his parole right here in this city.
Speaker A
His last address was San Diego. Right. Well, is that all supposed to add up to something?
Speaker A
Just that he's a thief who lived here. The last time he was known to be alive was in San Diego.
Speaker A
Which is as close to Mexico as you can get. Mexico? Mhm. And that's a big, big gold producer, right?
Speaker A
Skipped across the border, picked up a satchel full of these. Surfaced here. He was on a ship. He didn't buy a ticket.
Speaker A
Stowed away on a freighter. A bribe, a nice cozy berth in steerage. You know what's true?
Speaker A
What is? What you always say. You work long enough as a cop, you start thinking like a crook.
Speaker A
Then you must know what else I'm thinking, huh, buddy boy? A counterfeit operation. That's right.
Speaker A
But if you're dealing in counterfeit coins, especially gold coins, it's a very special market.
Speaker A
A collector's market. Right. And those guys can tell a phony. Or buy from a dealer who can.
Speaker A
Yeah. We're going to need an expert. I'll tell you what, I'll call a numismatic society and get us one.
Speaker A
The what? The numismatic society. Numis I know. I know. Coin collectors. Very good. I worked a few crossword puzzles myself, you know, buddy boy.
Speaker A
Unit 81, unit 81. 902 to crime lab. Unit 81, 10-4. What have you got?
Speaker A
I thought you might want to look at these. Who is it? Harris and I are working on it now.
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Body washed up by Hunter's Point this morning. Probably in the bay all night. Johnson saw the pictures, thought it might tie.
Speaker A
Blond? Oh, age is what? Between 20 and 30? This our killer? I've got a work up in progress now.
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You get any ID? Negative. Even the labels were stripped from the clothing. What killed him?
Speaker A
The coroner says an insulin OD. Did you get a set of prints? In the works.
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Let me know when you get a make. Right. Thanks, Charlie. Hey uh maybe you're in the wrong department after all.
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Al Gopeans? Fince? Yes. I got to talk to you. Down an angel. Now, listen to me.
Speaker A
I know how you feel. But there's nothing to worry about. Nothing can go wrong, and no one will be hurt if you do as I told you.
Speaker A
Fince, please, do you have to do it? Yes, we have to do it. You and I together. And then we can be together always, in style, the way we planned.
Speaker A
Look, I don't care about the money, all right? All I want is Well, I do care about money, Karen, and I care very much.
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I care enough to have this whole thing set up right now, and I'm counting on you.
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By the time you have that case open, I'll be there at 9:00. Yes. Yes, yes, this is a Gopian's.
Speaker A
Well, I suppose so, but can I ask what this is about? Okay um Okay, I'll be there shortly.
Speaker A
The basic design was changed twice after 1849. These changes were made in 1866 and 1907.
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Between 1907 Right. and 1933 57 issues were minted. Terrific. Wonderful, only 206 possibilities. 206, huh?
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You know, if I was going to counterfeit coins, I'd go for the rarest issues.
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Now, here's one. 1907. Check that out. $22,000? Yeah, 22,500 and that was 11 years ago.
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For one coin? I got to get into this, then. It's another world. Yes, come in.
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Lieutenant Stone? Yeah, what can we do for you? Well, I believe it's the other way around. You telephoned me.
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For some kind of assistance on Vincent Gopian. Oh, excuse me, I called you. I'm Inspector Keller.
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How do you do? This is Lieutenant Stone. Yes, how do you do? Uh, hope I haven't kept you waiting too long.
Speaker A
Not at all. We appreciate your coming. Why don't you sit down? You want some coffee?
Speaker A
Uh, no, thank you. Uh I was told your shop deals with a lot of collectors of a double eagle.
Speaker A
Well, yes, we dealt quite a lot with them in the past, but not so much anymore. They got too expensive.
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Yeah, we were just looking at some of these prices. Incredible. It's one coin here, 22,500.
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May I see it? Sure. Oh, yes, it's a Gudenstype. It's extra high and sold for 22,500 in Chicago 1963 I believe.
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But I take it you gentlemen have some special interest in Eagles. Well, we have reason to believe that we're looking for a counterfeiter.
Speaker A
Counterfeit Eagles? That sounds like a very complicated operation for a very limited market. I mean, I don't see how anyone could expect to pass them through a dealer without being discovered.
Speaker A
Well, that's why we wanted to talk to you. You see, we'd like to have a list of names of all the collectors in the city.
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Yes, it would take a little while. Well, we think the counterfeiter has about 100 of those planchets and he's had them for about 36 hours. Now, would it be possible for him to have stamped all the coins by
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now? Yes, I suppose so provided he had the die and the press already available.
Speaker A
Well, that could mean he's ready to make his move. Uh excuse me, Lieutenant. What exactly did you mean by his move?
Speaker A
Well, you just said that it would be almost impossible to pass them through a dealer without being discovered. Yeah, but how many collectors stop to look for minor imperfections once they've owned that rare coin for several years?
Speaker A
I see. You mean a switch. Transferring the uh the counterfeit coins for the authenticated ones and then selling those somewhere else where there's no risk of detection.
Speaker A
Sounds possible to me. How about you? Sounds ingenious and terribly important for someone in my field to help you to stop.
Speaker A
Uh but Lieutenant, you'd want more than the names of collectors. You'd want a list of all the issues that would be most likely passed. You see, they'd have to be either proof or uncirculated commanding a kind of price.
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Well, what about this uh 1907 coin for example? Oh, no. I'd rule that out. That's too rare.
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Well, can you give us issues that you can't rule out? Yes, be quite a lot.
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And about the uh collectors, I'd have to check my records in my shop to compile that list.
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Well, we'd appreciate anything you gave us, Mr. Hagopian. Would be pleasure. Thank you. Thank you.
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Good day. Good day. Good day. I don't know. I This could take us 2 days just to put the right coins with the collectors that Hagopian gave us.
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Yeah, he helped a lot. Yeah. Mhm. What do you know? What? Remember that coin that Hagopian said was too rare, the one that went for 22 Gs?
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Yeah. Take a look who bought it. John R. James, San Francisco. Mhm. And if he owns that one, he owns others.
Speaker A
I don't remember his name on that list. It's because it's not on there. Well, how did he forget a name like that?
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You know, I think that's worth asking Mr. Hagopian himself. Go ahead. You've done it before.
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As distasteful a duty as I have burdened you with over the months, it seems.
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Go ahead. You said this morning that um these don't belong to anymore. You agreed to sell them to someone?
Speaker A
What I said this morning is not for publication. What I'm going to tell you now is.
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This coin was minted in 1907. It's the most expensive double eagle ever on the market. I paid an exorbitant price, I know, but it had a sentimental value.
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You see, my uncle Henry actually started this collection for me with an identical coin on my seventh birthday.
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You began collecting these when you were 7 years old? No, no, not exactly. I sold it to buy a train ticket.
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This was my start, you might say, and when I made it in the world, I determined to buy it back again someday.
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Why the rest? I became enamored of these in my search for this. For instance, Mr. James, I'd much rather think of you with the roses than with all of these.
Speaker A
Lock it up. This may become a mellow evening after all. All set? Yes. Let's break out the brandy.
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You know, whether or not we ever finish that book I brought you here to write, I've enjoyed your company, Karen.
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Thank you. No, thank you. Thank you for being more than just somebody an old man can babble on to about his yesterdays.
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And for being someone who understands just why and how he's spent them the way he did.
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I think you probably understand everything about me except my eagles, even after hearing how I came to collect them.
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Well, it isn't important that I understand that. Well, it isn't important I keep the future from you, either, provided it remains off the record.
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Of course. I've said they already belong to someone else, that's true. A trust owns them all, has for several years.
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When I die, they'll be sold at auction, the proceeds will go to the English department at the university.
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That's how we met, actually. Dean Robinson told me I wouldn't be disappointed in you in any respect, that's proved to be true, too.
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I'm glad you feel that way. Remember this morning when I told you the roses were different?
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They had always belonged to me. Yes. Well, that was some sort of a fantasy, I suppose, an old man's idea of immortality.
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I could see my creation, my queen rose, carrying on my name long after I was gone.
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They deserve something much better. They deserve to be named after a beautiful woman. I'd like very much to name that rose after you, with your permission.
Speaker A
What do you say? Shall it be Queen Karen? Good evening. Police. We're sorry to be intruding, but we'd like to speak to Mr. James, please.
Speaker A
Mr. James is not to be disturbed. Well, what is it? Lieutenant Stone. Inspector Keller.
Speaker A
We're with homicide. We'd like to talk to you about your collection of double eagles.
Speaker A
I fail to make any connection between my eagles and homicide. Well, if you gave us a few moments, I'm sure we could make that connection for you.
Speaker A
Very well. This way, gentlemen. There they are. Now, that's all of them, right? Yes, Inspector. That is all of them. 40 to be exact, with an average value of over $12,000.
Speaker A
Mr. James, did you know a dealer in this city by the name of Vincent Hagopian.
Speaker A
Very well. I used to deal with him exclusively before he died. Died? About a year and a half ago.
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Well, we just talked to him this afternoon. His son had to be his son.
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Could be. He took over the business, but he's not the expert his father was. He hasn't the same love for it.
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He didn't mention that either. Maybe we ought to find out what else he forgot to mention.
Speaker A
Say, may I use your phone? Certainly. Thank you. You still haven't explained why you're here.
Speaker A
We're looking for counterfeits, Mr. James. Counterfeit eagles here? Impossible. Who has access to your case?
Speaker A
There's only one key. I keep it with me at all times. May I? Thank you. Stone.
Speaker A
Let me talk to Lessing. Lessing Stone. I want to make on Vincent Hagopian Jr.
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He owns a coin shop on Maiden Lane. Uh his name and address is on my desk over there. You can pick it up. I'll hold.
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Desk, left drawer. Thank you. Got it. You got it? Go over to R&I and find out if by any chance there's a tie between this Hagopian and our other body, Ernie Walker.
Speaker A
Body? What's he talking about? We've had two killings we believe are connected with this counterfeiting.
Speaker A
Did you get a make on that insulin OD yet? All right. Check Hagopian's neighborhood and find out if the two of them were ever seen together.
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Anywhere. Now, you know where to look. The bars, his coin shop, apartment. Let me know what turns up.
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When was the last time you opened this, sir? Less than a half an hour ago.
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And were you alone? No, I was with a friend, a young lady. She's my house guest.
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May we speak to her, please? Certainly. Thank you. Got anything? I don't know. Mr. James, this coin, it's an '83 proof coin.
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Only 40 in the world. Could you look at it through the glass? We've taken sort of a 2-day crash course because of this case, but those uh hairline scratches, I believe you experts call them cast marks.
Speaker A
They wouldn't be on a coin in proof condition, would they? No. They weren't here when I bought this coin.
Speaker A
You didn't buy that coin, Mr. James. Somebody just gave it to you. Hagopian? I don't know.
Speaker A
Yes, sir? Will you ask Miss Pearson to join us, please? Miss Pearson just left, sir. I heard her car in the driveway.
Speaker A
Say, this girl, did she know Hagopian? Not well. But she did know him. Yes, as a matter of fact, I introduced them myself several months ago when he came here one day to make a delivery.
Speaker A
Have they seen each other since then? I wouldn't know. Surely she couldn't be involved in anything like this.
Speaker A
She's a very simple young woman. And if I read this Hagopian right, he's no simple young man.
Speaker A
Well, your description of Miss Pearson, sir, what's her first name? Karen. Vince, Vince, open the door.
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Vince. What are you doing here? I told you to wait for me. Police came.
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The police? Yeah, we were wrong. Look, we got to take it back. Never mind, never mind. What did they want? What did they say?
Speaker A
I don't know. I left as soon as they came. Help me. Look at this mail.
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Vince, stop. Look, we have to take it back, all of it. It doesn't belong to him anymore.
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I know it doesn't belong to him. It belongs to me and they'll be waiting for me in Spain.
Speaker A
Oh, please. I'll make it up to you. We don't need this. I'll tell you what I don't need.
Speaker A
I don't need you. Your whining mouth or your pawing me anymore. I'll call them in.
Speaker A
Good. How long you think she'll stay? Who? Who? Karen. But I'm a D.A. She turned evidence.
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Identified Tommy from the Colombian shop. That'll help her a little. What's this? Got your names on them.
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In appreciation, John R. James. Silver dollar. What is that book? What is that book?
Speaker A
Yeah. What year is that? 1882. It's pretty shiny, isn't it? Yes, it does. Think they're uncirculated?
Speaker A
Oh, I'd say they're uncirculated. Hey, we're rich. Yeah? Yeah. $4 a piece. Hi, Amalie. Sweet night. Let's have today's sheet, eh?
Speaker A
Thanks pal. Same money. Hey, tomorrow, same time, same station, OKAY, PAL? OH, HEY, LOOK AT THAT. I'm a slob, Marty. Look at this here.
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I'll get that. I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry. Yeah, I am, too. You all right?
Speaker A
Yes. Good. Nobody got hurt. No harm done. No foul balls. Everybody's all right. Could you do me a little favor?
Speaker A
I got this change here. I could use the change. I got to make a phone call later. I'll give you a dollar.
Speaker A
Well, I don't have a dollar. I don't have a dollar. Here, count it. It's only got 80 cents.
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82. Good deal. Thanks a lot, right? You're welcome. Who are those bookies? The only time they look at their watches post time.
Speaker A
He's really going to show up? Oh, yeah. Put yourself in his shoes. You're a two-bit bookmaker just beginning to make it and suddenly a big wheel syndicate boss like Hoyle La Wheelin begins to move in.
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Nothing for you to do but pack up and run or yell your head off.
Speaker A
Chafe is a yeller. Say, wait a minute. Did I show you this new snapshot?
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Yeah, it's a great shot. Yeah. She looks happy, doesn't she? look pretty. Genie's blossomed into such a lovely lady.
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Yeah, she has. What time we got now? Half past. Want to hang in a little longer?
Speaker A
Buddy boy, anybody who's going to give us Llewellyn and his whole gambling operation, we wait for.
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You know, Jean is with Brad's folks. You know that, don't you? Brad's the guy she's going with.
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Yeah. His folks have a place up in the mountains. Snow, skiing, all that stuff.
Speaker A
Christmasy. The dispatch has been trying to raise You, Healy. I told the fellows at the dispatch where we'd be.
Speaker A
Roy Chaffee's brother just got killed. Frankie got killed? I guess they heard Roy was going to talk.
Speaker A
When? About 45 minutes ago, over on 24th Street, right near Castro. How? Gizmo with a shotgun shell wired into the ignition. Pow.
Speaker A
Professional. Llewellyn. He knew Roy was coming to us. So, why didn't he hit Roy?
Speaker A
Cuz he couldn't find him. Roy's been hiding underground. That's where he'll probably stay, underground.
Speaker A
Then I figured on some downtime, Mr. Llewellyn. Clean hit and all, but the cops have got to put something together.
Speaker A
They've got to figure that Hoyt Llewellyn contracted the hit. They've got your name. Arty, how would you like Buenos Aires?
Speaker A
I'd like it fine. And that's where it'll be. After you handle this Roy Chaffee business.
Speaker A
This address is I got it. If it's fresh, 10 minutes old, if he isn't there, he isn't anywhere.
Speaker A
You know, this is within three blocks of the hit. How's Abby Groot going to take this?
Speaker A
He used to be very close with the Chaffee brothers. Exactly right. Used to be. He's in my pocket now.
Speaker A
Anyway, you don't have to handle him. I do. You handle that. Got it. Taped to the other side of the steering column.
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Shotgun shell. Yeah, wired into the ignition. I've seen them before. Now, what we've got to know is what have you got on Llewellyn?
Speaker A
Nothing. Zip. I might get lucky and lift a print off the metal part of the casing, but the pipe's been wiped.
Speaker A
The wire is ordinary. Whoever rigged this must have worn gloves. The work's fast and clean.
Speaker A
You think Llewellyn has anything to do with it? Jim, anybody see the guy who wired this?
Speaker A
Nobody remembers him, Steve. No description, but we're still checking. What about Frankie? Did anybody see him on the street? Somebody following him?
Speaker A
Anything? Yes, sir. There was a lady. She talked to him just before. My partner's trying to find her name.
Speaker A
You stay with it. Yes, sir. Mike? Mike, that uh surveillance request you put out on Art Styles has spotted his car 900 block Church Street. Want an inspector team on him?
Speaker A
Hm. No. Steve, you tag him, okay? And don't move in without me. We've got nothing to bust him on.
Speaker A
Unless he goes after Roy. Yeah, unless. I'm going to have a talk with Llewellyn.
Speaker A
Good luck. Thanks. [ __ ] Where are my keys? Thanks. Turn around. I don't understand why you're so concerned.
Speaker A
So concerned about me. I have them right here, right here in this boat. I don't care. Ask Gabby.
Speaker A
And what about that gunsel of yours? What about Art Styles? Right here. Right here with me. And if you're considering rousting him like you are me, let me let me remind you that I have an attorney.
Speaker A
An attorney that's very, very sensitive. Very sensitive about harassment. Now, if you want to talk, be prepared to make an arrest and make it stick.
Speaker A
Otherwise, Sure. Sure, I met your lawyer. You were here, too, huh? The three of you.
Speaker A
See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. Growl. Why did you stand by and let him scratch Frankie?
Speaker A
I'm out of it, Lieutenant. I hardly knew Frankie. Like Lou Ellen says, nobody here knows any Chaffees.
Speaker A
Roy Chaffee started you. He picked you up when you were hustling punch boards at a buck a throw and made you a bookie runner just like Frankie.
Speaker A
Frankie stayed a runner, but not you. You moved up. You built your own organization.
Speaker A
Rumor. I got no organization. that rumor bit. I got your biography on booking slips.
Speaker A
And you owe the Chaffees. Sower of discontent, Abby. He's a sower of discontent. Lou Ellen here, he muscled in on Chaffees.
Speaker A
He wants to take over all the gambling in the city. Didn't you know that?
Speaker A
What's to stop him from cutting you out next? Do I look worried? Lieutenant. Are you finished?
Speaker A
Are you through playing taps for Frankie? And if you are, maybe you can find your way off this boat back to your car.
Speaker A
No. I've got a couple of minutes left on the meter. And I want you to understand that if you lay a hand on Roy Chaffee, I'm going to have your arm up to the elbow.
Speaker A
So, you just stay away from him. And keep your friend Styles away from him too.
Speaker A
As for you, anybody that has you as a friend doesn't need an enemy. He's on a fishing expedition.
Speaker A
Harvey, I'm sorry I didn't have time to tell you about this uh Frankie thing. It was one of those last-minute things.
Speaker A
There was no other way. Roy was going to the police. How'd you find out, Hoy?
Speaker A
How could you be sure? Oh, I was sure. I had his phone tapped for over a year.
Speaker A
How about uh mine Hoy? You uh You tapped my phone? I didn't hear that.
Speaker A
Now, tell me about Mason. We're all set for tonight? Sure. Shift guard 10:00. We'll take my car.
Speaker A
No, no, no. Not your car, Harvey. My car. Your car. Hi. Hello. I'm Art Styles. I'm really sorry about being this late.
Speaker A
Oh, I I think you must have the wrong apartment, Mr. Styles. Oh, I don't think so.
Speaker A
You're Mary Grace, right? Mary Ray Dortmunder. Dort? Oh, boy. I really blew it. Take a look at that.
Speaker A
Mary Grace Littlefield. Oh, you're just one block off. This address is just down the street.
Speaker A
You We're close. Wrong girl, I'm afraid. Wrong name, right girl. Could I use your phone?
Speaker A
And your phone book. I don't have the right number. Thanks, Mary Ray. It's nice. Very nice view.
Speaker A
Yes. I've been living here for 6 years. It's a lovely view. Can you find your number?
Speaker A
Yeah. Listen, is it okay if I say something? I mean, I usually say what I think straight out.
Speaker A
Some people get, you know. What I'd really like to say is that I just soon not make that phone call.
Speaker A
Well, what I'd like to do is just sit here and talk. Whatever. Oh, I I don't think you'd find that very interesting, Mr. Styles. I I'm a teacher. I was just correcting papers.
Speaker A
Oh, what could it hurt? And I haven't been to school since I was 12. It could only help, Mary Ray.
Speaker A
Well, would you like some coffee? Sure, it sounds good. Mary Ray? I like it here.
Speaker A
Hi. Okay, my friend. Third floor on the front. Doing what? He's with a girl.
Speaker A
Mary Ray Dortmunder. Mary Ray Dortmunder? That's a crummy name for a go-go dancer. She's a teacher.
Speaker A
School teacher. Well, that's better. Mary Ray Dortmunder. Now, that's a good name for a school teacher.
Speaker A
But tell me, what is Styles doing with a school teacher? He's learning. Blessing ran her name for us, no record.
Speaker A
Teaches at Everett Junior High 31. No connection with Lewellen or Chaffee's as far as we know. This is the worst-looking BLT I've ever seen.
Speaker A
Well, it's the best I could do. Well, what else did you do? Got nowhere.
Speaker A
If Chaffee is hiding out in San Francisco, he's dug himself a deep hole. Healy and Saletti are staked out at his house.
Speaker A
As far as we know, he hasn't been around for over a week. You know, I was thinking, his wife's about to have a baby, right?
Speaker A
Yeah, so? Well, doesn't it make sense that he'd want to see her? You know, see she's all right.
Speaker A
Possibly. But if he does, Healy nails him. Say, how about Styles? Does it look as though he's going to hang around for a while?
Speaker A
Looks that way, yeah. Good. What do you say we don't eat in the car for a change? Let's go somewhere where they've got a a nice white tablecloth.
Speaker A
I'm with you. That sounds terrific. that, huh? Yeah. I'll call in for relief. Page one to stakeout.
Speaker A
You're You're right. Uh of course, in a way. It It is for children, but but it has something to say to to everybody. Saint-Exupéry wasn't only a children's writer, he was a pilot and an adventurer and a romantic. He
Speaker A
The Little Prince is about humanity and love. Mary Ray, where do you live anyway?
Speaker A
I I'm I'm not sure I follow. I mean, you're talking about Byron, Lord Byron and those sisters.
Speaker A
The Brontës. All that fairyland thing. I mean, you live out here somewhere where the wallpaper never warps, the toilets don't back up.
Speaker A
Well, I I just talk about what I believe. I guess. Do you really know any people like you talk about?
Speaker A
I mean, here, now, on this planet, in this city. There are people who think the way I do.
Speaker A
Who? Teachers? Have you got a guy, Mary Ann? I've sort of of a Well, now you either got a guy or you don't.
Speaker A
I guess it is that simple after all. No, I don't. I'd better clear the dishes so Sure.
Speaker A
Guess who's staying. I'm not going back to my place, Mary Ann. I like it here.
Speaker A
But I have to make a call first. Hand me the telephone, would you? Thank you, Mary Ann.
Speaker A
Hello. Roy, how goes it? You tell me, Arnie. Everything's fine. It's right on. I'm looking right down the barrel of Chaffee's place this minute.
Speaker A
If he's in there and he moves, he's dead. Where you calling from? Chick's place.
Speaker A
Looks right over Chaffee's. And uh how are you going to handle that, Arnie? The chick?
Speaker A
Was no problem. If you uh if you score on Roy, you can't leave her, you know.
Speaker A
Oh, I know it. I'll handle it. Arnie, uh maybe you better handle it now before I haven't let you down yet, have I, Mr.
Speaker A
Llewellyn? You seeing Mason tonight? Is he coming in with us? Yeah, it's all set. I just got the final figures on the operation.
Speaker A
The handle on the football and basketball pools alone come to nearly, get this, 1 million six.
Speaker A
Arnie just walked in, uh we're leaving now. I'll be with you, Mr. Llewellyn. Arnie goes a bag of snakes, and you know that.
Speaker A
Yeah, I know. But as long as you can keep the uh snakes in the bag, huh?
Speaker A
Arnie, you call me when everything's handled huh? Okay. Everything, Arnie. Arnie Styles? That's right, Arnie.
Speaker A
You got him on Roy? Roy? Roy Scheefe? You know, Arnie, he was some girl.
Speaker A
10:00 right? Yeah. Hey, don't like my driving? Yeah, well, you drive too fast, Hoyt.
Speaker A
Oh, here's uh here's Mason. Good. Coming, Hoyt? Just a minute, I can't get this uh seat belt off.
Speaker A
You get it, Hoyt. This isn't going to release. See? Boys, Jimmy did it. Happy.
Speaker A
Stone was right. You can't dump everybody, Hoyt. That's what Frankie Hoyt! Frankie, wait a minute.
Speaker A
Let's go. He can't come out. Roy was going to go to you people. He would have told you about Mr. Llewellyn.
Speaker A
And we knew it would mean a jail sentence for Roy. But Roy's not a big criminal like Llewellyn.
Speaker A
He takes bets on horses and ball games. We make a living. We don't kill.
Speaker A
They kill. Frankie was nice little guy. Why did they have to murder him like that?
Speaker A
Because they know how Roy thinks. The murder was to show him what would happen if he came to us and the Welland was hoping he'd do exactly what he did.
Speaker A
He wanted him to hide. Until they could find him, yes. When's your baby due?
Speaker A
Now. Today tomorrow. If I told you where he is and he told you what you want to know.
Speaker A
Then we could protect him. The other way he's just a he's a walking target. This way he has a chance. He can see his baby.
Speaker A
Yes? Who? Just a minute. Sergeant His Eagan. Eaton. You're kidding. What pier? All right.
Speaker A
No, I got nothing. Right. Divers found the Welland's body in the bay. He's dead.
Speaker A
Want to call your husband and tell him? Was that Styles with him? Then Roy stays right where he is.
Speaker A
You come back, talk to me again and Styles is dead, too. Mrs. Chafee. When everybody who can hurt Roy is in prison or dead, then come back.
Speaker A
Great, we got nothing to nail him on and she wants him in prison or dead.
Speaker A
That's what the lady said. Anyway, I put two men outside. Good. I wonder how Styles will take this.
Speaker A
If Styles wants to make a move, he'll be a flag us. Yeah, that's him.
Speaker A
That's Llewellyn. Looks like Grote used his golden rule before he could. Which one's that?
Speaker A
Do unto others before they do unto you. Mr. Ortman, there. Yes. Lieutenant Stone. Inspector Keller, homicide.
Speaker A
Oh, is it about Mr. Chaffee? Yes, it is. I told one of your men we collided on the sidewalk.
Speaker A
He asked me if I had change for a dollar and then he went to his car.
Speaker A
The only time I ever saw the man. You're a friend of Art Styles. Did this friendship with him have anything to do with you being on 24th Street at that particular time?
Speaker A
No, of course not. What does Arthur Styles have to do with that murder? Well, we're not really sure, but we thought you might be able to help us.
Speaker A
Well, I can't believe it. It isn't possible. He isn't like like that. Well, how well do you really know Arthur Styles?
Speaker A
I know him. Do you know how he makes his living? I'm afraid there must be some mistake.
Speaker A
The Arthur Styles that I know This is the Arthur Styles that we're talking about.
Speaker A
I don't know anything about that murder. I don't I don't think I want to talk about this anymore.
Speaker A
If you'll excuse me, I have faculty meetings. Excuse me. You know, I don't really think she knew about this man.
Speaker A
She does now. Who is it? Who is it behind those windows? Who is it?
Speaker A
What's the difference? It's nobody you know. Touch that doorknob, Mary Ray, and I'll kill you where you stand.
Speaker A
Lock it. Bring me the key. That's why you're here. That's all you wanted. A room with a view.
Speaker A
Uniforms checked in and reports no movement by subjects. Inspectors 34 will assume surveillance, while Inspectors 81 maintain position.
Speaker A
81 will maintain stakeout. You know, your hunch better be on the money. Has to be. First child.
Speaker A
Oh, you know all about that, huh? No, no. Now, I just figured that a bookie's wife with this much heat on wouldn't use her phone.
Speaker A
She'd figure either Llewellyn's guys got a tap or we do. This way, when she's ready to have the baby, she'll get in touch with him or she'll phone him somewhere.
Speaker A
Just a hunch, huh? Yeah. And not a bad one, buddy boy. Well, thank you.
Speaker A
No, I don't know Roy Chaffee. I know he never did anything to me. It's just business.
Speaker A
Do you like it? This business? I don't like it and I don't hate it. I'm just in it.
Speaker A
I just wondered what makes a man want to murder two people he hardly knows.
Speaker A
Money? Is it that? you stay out of my head. You just sit there. Keep out of my way and don't push.
Speaker A
Hello. This is the answering service, right? This is Arnie Styles. No, you've already got me down for a callback, but why isn't Mr. Llewellyn picking up?
Speaker A
Well, when did he pick up his calls last? All right. When he calls, have him call me huh?
Speaker A
There's a story by Ernest Hemingway. Stories. What's this with stories? Has nothing real ever happened to you?
Speaker A
It's called The Killers. It's about a man named Swede. He's being chased by killers.
Speaker A
He's running. The way you're running from the police. 81 to headquarters. And sweet. He took jobs he hated.
Speaker A
In towns he didn't like. And the killers were always after him, chasing him. Nobody's chasing me.
Speaker A
They're sure you killed Frank Chaffee. Lieutenant Stone, Inspector Keller, they said so. They showed me your picture.
Speaker A
a clean hit. Nobody could connect me with it. They knew you were here. They'll know if you killed that man.
Speaker A
If you kill me. Who said I'd kill you? Common sense says. Look, Mary Ray, I didn't come up here to get it.
Speaker A
Hello. This is Art Styles again. Didn't Mr. Llewellyn check in yet? No, I haven't been listening to radio for a while.
Speaker A
When? He finally gave up. Sweet, he finally knew he couldn't run anymore. He just sat in his room and waited.
Speaker A
Shut up, Mary Ray. They hit the man I worked for. What What then does doesn't that mean it stops?
Speaker A
What? Or do they have to kill you now? Or do you do you still have to kill that man across the street?
Speaker A
Explain it to me. I don't understand. I don't expect you to understand. It doesn't come in a book.
Speaker A
Tell me then. Doesn't it just go on and on until you're dead? And they're dead.
Speaker A
And the men, your people and their people higher, are dead. Where does it stop?
Speaker A
It stops when everybody quits. Then quit. Please. I can't, Mary Ray. That man could have fingered my boss.
Speaker A
Put him away for life. He could do the same to me. Hello. It's Angela. Are you all right?
Speaker A
Angela, where are you? A phone booth on Sanchez. It's time, Roy. I I I have to go to the hospital.
Speaker A
Llewelyn's dead, Roy. Are you sure? You didn't hear that from Abby Grote, did you?
Speaker A
The police, Inspector Keller. Uh you got the call right at the house. Abby must have done it, Roy. Why don't you call him? See where you stand.
Speaker A
What about Art Styles? I don't know. Can you come with me, Roy? Okay, I guess.
Speaker A
Yeah. I I'll be right there. Please call Abby. You got to know. All right.
Speaker A
She put one coin in that box. I think it was one, yeah. Local call, figures.
Speaker A
He's right smack in the middle of a half a million people. Did you say she knew all about Llewelyn?
Speaker A
right there when I got the word. Great. This could break it wide open. Stay on that cab's bumper.
Speaker A
Art. Please. Please quit. Let it stop right here. I have a car. It's parked near the apartment. Take it.
Speaker A
Get on the phone. Find out when's the next flight out of here to LA.
Speaker A
They leave every hour on the half hour. Check it. Wouldn't you know, a fire.
Speaker A
Mike, we're going to lose him. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is Sanchez sitting.
Speaker A
Move right on the next one. DO YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE WITHIN FIVE BLOCKS OF THAT PLACE we're staking out?
Speaker A
That's why Styles hanging in with the teachers. You bet your sweet badge it is.
Speaker A
He's sitting on Roy Scheider. Teacher. Art Styles and the teacher. What? What? Jimmy, hold it.
Speaker A
He split. He didn't get far. Mike, he's got the girl. Take the back stairs.
Speaker A
Right. Art Styles. I get him to the hospital and stay with him. You better take her, too.
Speaker A
The blue Maverick, PCE616. 81 to headquarters. In pursuit of a blue Maverick. California license number PCE616.
Speaker A
PCE616. Suspect, Art Styles. Armed, dangerous. Has hostage. Probable destination San Francisco International. The airport?
Speaker A
That's what the telephone book said. What? Come on, just move it. I'll tell you later.
Speaker A
There he is. Still behind us. Abbey Road. What does that mean? What do we do?
Speaker A
We? There's no we. I thought you needed me. As a hostage. You think your being in the way would stop the guys in that car?
Speaker A
We'll be lucky to get Styles before he gets to the terminal. Come inside, Mary Beth.
Speaker A
See if she knows where he's headed. He said he was going to Los Angeles.
Speaker A
Final call for flight 74 to Los Angeles, boarding Final call for flight 74 to Los Angeles, Flight 4, you are now boarding at gate 7.
Speaker A
Hayden. All right, jump. What? Get over it. Turn it off. All right, CUFF THIS ONE.
Speaker A
TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. FLIGHT 19 Flight 19 is now arriving at gate 2 from Chicago.
Speaker A
Flight 19 Can you get this thing stopped? is now arriving at gate 2 from Chicago.
Speaker A
Nick Hagen, Nick Hagen Flight 19 Yeah, ever since she's been away to school and came home for Christmas holidays, why we'd go somewhere where it was fancy.
Speaker A
Top of the Mark, Ernie's, Le Twaal. Just to kind of celebrate, you know. It's very nice.
Speaker A
I think you said her name was Jean. I did, yes, Jean. So, anyway, she's got a med student this year and they decided to spend the holidays with his She's very beautiful, isn't she?
Speaker A
Yeah, tell me she takes after her mother. Yeah. You know, I I made a reservation about a month ago thinking that she and Brad would be home for the holidays.
Speaker A
We would be crazy not to use it. The Island House, you know where it is?
Speaker A
Have you ever been there? No, I've never been there, Lieutenant. Mike. It's in Sausalito. It's got a beautiful view of the bay, sort of like a a fairyland.
Speaker A
I guess I'd feel right at home then. You know what they say about teachers of literature.
Speaker A
Romantics, right? Well well. What do you say to the three of us? I'll pick you up at 7:30.
Speaker A
That would be lovely. Thank you. Oh, I showed you the picture, didn't I? No, no, I've never seen that picture.
Speaker A
Oh, well, take a look. me. You know I've seen it before. It's lovely. It's terrific.
Speaker A
Yeah, terrific. Terrific yeah.
Topics:The Streets of San Francisco1976 TV showcrime dramamysteryactionJohnny HarmanNick Carrasdetective storyAmerican TV seriesclassic crime
